Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 806 Breaking into Cochin
On the sixth day of the first lunar month in the 22nd year of Chongzhen, shortly after returning to the country to celebrate the new year after sending personnel from the vassal states to participate in the wedding of the prince of Ming Dynasty, [-] soldiers were deployed in the Danglu camp, which had been trained for more than a year, in the border area between the chief envoy of Guangxi and the northern border of Cochin. The officers and soldiers, after half a year of terrain exploration beforehand, under the command of the commander-in-chief Huang Zhen, carried out a surprise attack on the Jiaozhi Zheng Group in two routes.

Because of the strict secrecy measures, the Danglu camp has been established to initially have combat effectiveness. For more than a year, the Jiaozhi Zheng family knew nothing about it until the Danglu camp launched a swift and fierce offensive. After Qingshui and Laojie, the top executives of the Zheng family panicked after receiving the news.

In a hurry, the top management of the Zheng family organized and dispatched thousands of people to rush eastward, trying to hold on to the two strategically important cities of Gaoping and Tongdeng respectively, and then Xu Tu recovered the lost ground, but Huang Zhen had already foreseen this It is estimated that the soldiers and horses were arranged in advance to set up ambushes on the roads that the enemy must pass through, and finally all the reinforcements from Zheng's two routes were defeated.

At the end of this battle, more than [-] Jiaozhi Zheng soldiers were beheaded, more than [-] were captured, and the rest of the defeated soldiers fled westward.

Then Huang Zhen divided his troops to attack Gaoping and Tongdeng.

Since the main forces of Zheng's men were stationed around the capital, Hanoi, and Gaoping and Tongdeng each had only a thousand soldiers guarding them, the Ming army did not take too much effort to break through the city.

After the Danglu camp arrived at the city, they first suppressed the defenders at the top of the city with Mines guns, and then successfully blasted the north and south gates with explosives. Most of the Jiaozhi soldiers escaped from the gap opened by the Ming army, and most of the rest were killed and captured, while the Ming army only had more than a hundred casualties.

The Jiaozhi soldiers, who mainly use cold weapons, have never seen such powerful firepower. Under the bombardment of the Ming army's guns and thunder, they quickly became dizzy and lost most of their fighting will in an instant.

The comparison of weapons between the two sides is no longer a matter of generational difference, but an epoch-making gap.And the Jiaozhi soldiers had no chance to use the mountain and jungle combat methods that the Jiaozhi soldiers were best at. After the Ming army approached the city, the main defenders of the two cities chose to rely on the city wall for defense in vain, waiting for the top to inquire. The flanking attack completely defeated the Ming army.

There are precedents for this approach.

200 years ago, the Jiaozhi soldiers used this method to defeat the Ming army several times. Liu Sheng, the Marquis of Anyuan in the Ming Dynasty, died in Hanoi. Most of the more than 1 Ming troops under his command were either killed or captured. The army marched against Jiaozhi three times to wash away this shameful history.

However, the current Daming army is no longer what it used to be. Not to mention the absolute advantage in firearms, most of the officers and soldiers of the Danglu Camp come from Guangxi, which has the same climate and environment as Cochin. Compared with the army, the soldiers of the Danglu camp did not need to adapt to the environment and climate at all. Coupled with sufficient food and salaries and ample money for burning and selling, the morale of the Danglu camp was high.

According to the pre-war strategy, after the occupation of Gaoping and Tongdeng, Huang Zhen ordered to clear the city and nearby villages, search for and eliminate the defeated soldiers of Cochin, and at the same time launched an operation to collect the weapons hidden by the Cochin people. , All will be copied and confiscated, and anyone who resists will be killed.

At the same time, Li Huaipu, governor of Guangxi, who received the news of the success of the Danglu camp, personally rushed to Gaoping with the first batch of more than 1 immigrants. to Gaoping.

Huang Zhen and Li Huaipu met in the former Jiaozhi City Guard Yamen in Gaoping City. After the two sides greeted each other, when Li Huaipu asked how the situation was here, Huang Zhen smiled: "Zhong Cheng, don't worry, I guess, as long as you can resist Jiaozhi The Zheng family sent soldiers here, I am afraid that within a few years, Gaoping and Tongdeng will be more stable!

I'm afraid I don't need to build too many houses for immigrants from Ming Dynasty!
Ha ha ha ha! "

Li Huaipu nodded when he heard the words, and secretly defined this thin man as a butcher in his heart.

He knew that Huang Zhen was also killed from the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood. It seemed that there were many people killed in the post-war suppression operations.

Li Huaipu didn't mind this.

After receiving the cabinet’s advice on the strategy of cochin management in the future, Li Huaipu deliberately consulted some documents in the yamen about the Ming Dynasty’s conquest of Cochin, and visited and asked people who are familiar with the situation of Cochin, and finally came to the conclusion that high-pressure Liwei, and then supplemented by Huairou's general direction in dealing with Cochin people.

Now that Huang Zhen has done the villain, it's time for him to make his debut as a "people-oriented" character.

In the following time, Li Huaipu first hosted a banquet for a well-known cochin gentry in Gaoping City.

After declaring that as long as everyone cooperates closely with the newly established government of Ming Dynasty, he will try his best to ensure that everyone's property will not be robbed. Li Huaipu asked these big gentry families to sign a document supporting the government of Ming Dynasty, promising that they would obey the orders of the new government. , Completely draw a clear line with Zheng.

Those people who have just experienced constant gunfire all day long inside and outside the city and blood dripping everywhere, although they have deep resentment towards Daming in their hearts, because their property is all in the local area, if they are disobedient, their homes may be ransacked in the blink of an eye. The danger of genocide, so everyone held their noses and was forced to sign the paperwork.

Immediately, Li Huaipu ordered someone to put away the documents, and asked the secretary who is proficient in Jiaozhi characters to write down the Anmin notice, and asked everyone present to arrange a person with status in each person's house to accompany Daming under the protection of the Ming army. The officials in the new yamen carried out publicity activities in the city and the countryside, speaking from their own experiences, and calling on the local people to obey the orders of the government.

Regardless of whether these big gentry families are willing or not, this must be done. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are not just protecting them. If they are not careful, the role of protector may become a massacre.

After settling the big gentry families, Li Huaipu sent his entourage to survey the surrounding terrain of Gaoping and Tongdeng in order to select sites for the construction of various infrastructures for the later immigrants to live in.

These two cities are located in the northern plains of Cochin. Apart from the cultivated fields around them, there are also large areas of wasteland that have not been developed. Therefore, after a simple survey of the terrain, a large-scale house repair and land reclamation movement The battle started vigorously.

The construction of immigrant houses is basically based on the villages formed by the local people. Since there is no severe winter in the local area, the construction of houses is much simpler. As long as people are arranged to cut down trees and thatch, a house that can live in will soon be built. The build is complete.

(End of this chapter)